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Local boards were ordered to make a drastic cut in physical requirements. Any man who has been able to fill a civilian job despite stuttering, partial paralysis, a hernia or a crooked spine, will be deemed suitable for the interim army. So will other 4-Fs previously disqualified because of "mental deficiencies, mild in degree." With 1,250,000 4-Fs to choose from, the Army hopes to wipe out its deficit by the end of April...
Sixteen ex-Army men, two former Marines, and one Navy veteran are enrolled in Military Science 3a, first of the advanced R.O.T.C. courses to be reinstated by the Department of Military Science and Tactics since the end of the war. Now engaged in an "interim" course, the veterans will begin full-scale Field Artillery studies next September when the Harvard Field Artillery unit of the Reserve Officers Training Corps returns to a full peacetime schedule...
Another question had to be answered: where would UNO meet in the interim? The selection committee had blithely settled on New York as temporary headquarters, but there was no certainty that New York could accommodate UNO. Atlantic City and San Francisco were eager and able to furnish the space. So was Boston. But there UNO ran into another problem-Russia's Delegate Georgii F. Saksin had blackballed Massachusetts as no fit place for UNO after Superior Court Judge John Swift's recent blast: "Godless Russia has torn the Atlantic Charter to tatters and enslaved millions of our fellow...
...size of the task would diminish but there would be work for a long time to come. The Army figured it would need a minimum 1,500,000 on July 1-not, Eisenhower was careful to point out, as a permanent military establishment but as an interim force "to secure the peace...
...More Giveaway. During the war, the A. P. gave its news to the OWI and psychological-warfare agencies. The State Department's interim information service, heir to OWI, still beams 66 program hours of news a day, in 21 languages. Last week the A.P. shut off the State Department's principal free supply of news. U.P. announced that it would follow suit. If their real reason had been that they did not want to give their news to the Government for nothing, that would have been understandable. But apparently they had also refused to sell it. The real...